Reality Check

At America Magazine, Mary Johnson and Patricia Wittberg use “data published the Official Catholic Directory” to describe the current status of Catholic nuns in America. Commentators “have made assertions about the demographics of religious life in the United States that are not based in fact,” write Johnson and Wittberg. “[M]isinformed statements create dichotomies that not only mask the complexity of religious reality, but are patently false.”

Read at America Magazine

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